Kiyoshi Kimura, center, president of a restaurant chain operator, cut into a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna sold for a record 155.4 million yen ($1.3 million) in the first auction of the new year, at the Sushizanmai restaurant in Tokyo on Saturday.

Kiyoshi Kimura, center, president of a restaurant chain operator, cut into a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna sold for a record 155.4 million yen ($1.3 million) in the first auction of the new year, at the Sushizanmai restaurant in Tokyo on Saturday.